What in the HELL do Rush and Elmo have in common?
I’m thinking I should be offended by this. Last time Ticketmaster said I would be interested in New Kids on the Block which was just downright rude. This just doesn’t make any bloody sense.
EA brings down the thunder with Origin
Electronic Arts is launching their own online game delivery service. Origin will allow players to the entire catalog of EA games which means you can play basketball and football until you’re blue in the face. I guess you could play Need for Speed for awhile too. Do they have any other games? I mean they bought up every game developer on the planet awhile back I thought they had 10,000 titles in their stable. And for the mobile gamer you can get Scrabble! Interestingly, EA lists multiple games on Steam, I wonder if this means they’ll be pulling their titles and making them exclusive to their own site? Bit of a David and Goliath story here isn’t it? Partnerships people, partnerships… EA launches Origin, takes aim at Steam
Sony hacked again. And again. And again…
I think the IT boys at Sony need a refresher course. Or perhaps they need to apologize since they done pissed someone off! Getting hacked once is a damn shame. Getting hacked multiple times over the course of a couple of weeks from different angles shows you might have a few vulnerabilities you need to patch. These guys aren’t using IE6 are they?
Is Flash Still Relevant?
I remember talking with a friend who claimed that Silverlight was going to be the demise of Adobe Flash. That was several years ago and near as I can tell Silverlight hasn’t made a dent. It’s an interesting technology that pops up from time to time but it hasn’t exactly pulled the rug out from Adobe has it? When news first broke that the iPad wouldn’t support Flash many where aghast and horrified at the prospect. How could a device be released that didn’t support Flash? This would surely lead to chaos. The web would collapse. People wouldn’t be able to function. Dogs and cats would be living together. Didn’t happen though. The 20+ million iPad users survived and nobody seemed to care it didn’t support Flash. So one company can’t make a dent in Flash territory and another gets along just fine without it. Is Adobe still relevant? For the time being yes. Flash is going to be around […]
Oh Lord, Windows 8 on Tablet and PC and Mobile
Microsoft just isn’t getting it. They need to stop trying to shoehorn a single OS into multiple devices. What they need to do is take a step back, pull out the absolutely best features from the Kernel and use that to write independent Operating Systems for each device they try to make. Why do you think making Windows 8 work on a tablet and desktop is a good idea? The interface and system requirements are so radically different the very idea seems moronic. Is it so lazy devs can compile and reuse the same code and make twice the money without any effort? Is that the hook MS is trying to float? A tablet works differently than a desktop. The interface is different, the expectation is different, the apps are different. Filling up Word with 800MB of features that appeal to millions of people might work for the desktop, but a 600MB word processor on the tablet doesn’t work. It […]
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